St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-19
WHAT HE DuO GET.
Ex.Oii Inspector Castle Gives a
Statement of HIS Net ReceinIs

The bill OF Senator Daniels. of Olmstead.
one at 50, 600 per annum was sent in due
time to the senate committee OH retrench
ment and reform. Chairman Thomas
Wech. of Sibley, called that committee to-
gether in the railroad committee room yes
terday afternoon. Messrs. Burkhardt.
Wallmark and Hixson selected favorable
seats around the table, and Chairman
WEIGH, having invited Capt. H. A. Castle.
eX-oil inspector, and Ii. B. Willis, the
present appointee to be present, those
gentlemen faced the committee with fear
and trembling. Mr.. Castle was invited to
give vent to all he had to say. He criti-
cized the defects in the present law and in
Mr.. Daniels bill, and submitted a state
ment by years of his own net receipts for
the period covered by his term of office
His receipts were:N
In 1883 from March) h)............... SIS, ,626
In 1851. ............ ..-...-........... 1,227
In 1902. ....................'. 9,ooO
Total for four years .s33,8 ,854
The defect in the present law, according
to Capt Castle, is that it provides that
wherever a demand is made in any county
for deputy, deputy must be provided,
and as each deputy keeps all the
fees he collects enough deputies could be
demanded to take all the fees leaving the
state oil inspector minus any of the emolu-
ments of the office. The source of his re-
ceipts has been Ramsey and Hennepin
counties, as deputies have been provided
for all other counties where there was
enough business to warrant their appoint
ment. The fees of the deputy at Duluth
ran from $1,000 to nearly $1,000 per
annum. But in some of the frontier coun-
ties the deputies only received froA SO to
500. and eight of them, after serving part
of year, refused to serve longer
These deputies are required to give bonds
of 81, 900 each. The defect in the bill of
Mr.. Daniels is that it would require depu-
ties to be appointed in Ramsey and Henne-
pin counties as we'll as other counties, and
as they would be required to turn over into
the state treasury all fees in excess of their
salaries of 81, 900 and mileage. where would
the fees or the salary of the state inspector
come from? MI. HiXOn asked what would
be the effect if the office was alb olished al
together. MIR. Castle replied that the state
would be made the sewer of all the impure
oils of the Standard Oil company and other
oil concerns. The Standard Oil company
now furnishes about 95 per cent. of all the
oil consumed in the state. That company
manufactures oil which. is below the test,
but under the law it sends that oil else
where unless some of it comes here by
mistake. That company sends oil
here in tanks of fifty barrels
each. The law requires the
inspector to brand oil below the test ''un-
safe" but it can't be branded until it is
emptied into barrels in storage. Some
times oil below the test comes here in tanks
and is sent on through to Dakota. where
there is no inspection law, or taken into
Wisconsin, where the test is lower. Again,
they use this oil in Minnesota by bringing
in other oil of superior quality and
MIXING THE TWO OILS
until the mixed article stands or is above
the test Thousands and thousands of bar
rels of inferior stuff are sent into Dakota.
The effect of the fees upon the oil is to add
four mills to its price per gallon, but this is
paid by the Standard Oil company and if it
is added to the price of the Oil it is not done
so as to be appreciated. Dealers in Fargo
and Moorhead can send for 900 barrels of
oil each; the Fargo dealer pays no more for
his oil where there is no inSpec.
tion than the dealer IN Moor
head. Mr. Castle admitted, however, that
much of the oil sent to Dakota through
Minnesota is inspected here, and one-fourth
of his receipts came from Dakota trade
and he had been apprehensive that tank
might be established at Fargo. which would
have cut off this source OF income. When
tank is established there Moorehead will
become very important office. As re-
CARDS the quality of oil. the Standard Oil
company can't afford to send in an inferior